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Congress of Racial Equality Founded
Civil Rights- right of the citizens for equality
-Founded in Chicago by a group of collage students
-Turned attention to the south in the 50's -
Dodgers Hire Jackie Robinson
Color line- a barrier between whites and non- whites.
-First Black MLB player
-Pitchers tried to "bean" him -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam, Malcolm X- black muslims, guys who appeal
-black nationalism is a doctrine, prompted by the nation of islam calling for complete separation from white society
-three members of the nation of islam assassinated Malcolm x while he was speaking in NYC -
Brown Vs. Board of Education Ruling
Thurgood Marshall- First african american justice
-No more segregation in schools after this case
-African americans got 7-8 stereotypes about their racial group -
First Lunch Counter Sit-ins
-Sit-in -sitting in a public facility in means of peaceful protesting
-Jim Crow Laws- Laws that made racial segregation okay in the south
-African American collage kids went into Woolsworth everyday
-White costumers and store owners attacked the students -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
-Plessy v. Ferguson- 1896 court case that determined separate but equal facilities
-Originally Kennedy's ideas
-Civil Rights Act band discrimination
